Unlocking the potential of publicly available microarray data using inSilicoDb and inSilicoMerging R/Bioconductor packages.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With an abundant amount of microarray gene expression data sets available through public repositories, new possibilities lie in combining multiple existing data sets. In this new context, analysis itself is no longer the problem, but retrieving and consistently integrating all this data before delivering it to the wide variety of existing analysis tools becomes the new bottleneck.

Results

We present the newly released inSilicoMerging R/Bioconductor package which, together with the earlier released inSilicoDb R/Bioconductor package, allows consistent retrieval, integration and analysis of publicly available microarray gene expression data sets. Inside the inSilicoMerging package a set of five visual and six quantitative validation measures are available as well.

SUBMITTER: Taminau J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3568420 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature